'Birdman' star Zach Galifianakis: Being a celebrity is 'dumb'
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Actor Zach Galifianakis accepts an award for Best Comedy site at the Webby Awards in New York June 14, 2010. (Reuters)
The cast of the new film "Birdman," about a washed up action hero trying to resurrect his career with a Broadway play, says being a celebrity is easy: and dumb.
"Anyone can be a celebrity now," the film's star Michael Keaton explained at the film's premiere screening in New York City on Saturday. "This is not a big deal anymore."
Co-star Edward Norton echoed Keaton: "The dog running into the wall is a bigger celebrity than any of us!"
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Zach Galifianakis said Hollywood's self-congratulations and endless awards ceremonies were particularly galling.
"They oversell it like we're curing cancer, you know what I mean?" he told The Hollywood Reporter. "I just think it can be gross sometimes, the way Hollywood congratulates itself all the time."
"It's gotten a little out of hand. There's no culture in it," he continued. "If people were writing about poets, mathematicians and all that, that would just move us forward quicker."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Galifianakis said at an earlier screening of the film that "Being a celebrity is s**t. It's dumb, and I'm not interested in it. I like to be an actor, and that's it.… I'd rather just do my work and go home and watch Lifetime."